The impact of race, income, drug abuse and dependence on health insurance coverage among US adults

Nianyang Wang and Xin Xie ()
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Nianyang Wang: Emory University
Xin Xie: East Tennessee State University

The European Journal of Health Economics, 2017, vol. 18, issue 5, No 2, 537-546

Abstract: Abstract Little is known about the impact of drug abuse/dependence on health insurance coverage, especially by race groups and income levels. In this study, we examine the disparities in health insurance predictors and investigate the impact of drug use (alcohol abuse/dependence, nicotine dependence, and illicit drug abuse/dependence) on lack of insurance across different race and income groups. To perform the analysis, we used insurance data (8057 uninsured and 28,590 insured individual adults) from the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH 2011). To analyze the likelihood of being uninsured we performed weighted binomial logistic regression analyses. The results show that the overall prevalence of lacking insurance was 19.6 %. However, race differences in lack of insurance exist, especially for Hispanics who observe the highest probability of being uninsured (38.5 %). Furthermore, we observe that the lowest income level bracket (annual income

Keywords: Health insurance coverage; Prevalence; Race; Income; Drug abuse; Drug dependence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I13 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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